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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Louise O'Bryan

This seaside cottage reinvents coastal decor with bold colour and pattern

Green living room with pink curtains and pink velvet sofa and midcentury cabinet.

Living in a place you've loved on holidays means a rethink of your accommodation – your usual rental probably won't cut it as a family home, but you still want the charm and character that has brought you back year after year. The solution? Look for a property you love, then make it right for your new life.

That's the approach taken by Brooke Copp-Barton and her husband, when they moved to Whitstable in Kent with their family.

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